I normally don’t get excited about church building campaigns. For good reason, I think, I am often skeptical, wondering if the construction of a bigger and better building is the best use of a church’s resources. A church’s emphasis on the outward structure rather than the inward life is often evidenced by endless building campaigns.

The building campaign shown in this video however, is a building campaign I’m glad to take part in. I believe It is the result of wise stewardship and shepherding of the inward growth that God has been pleased to grant my church. I am on staff at the South Campus of Bethlehem Baptist, where we have between 600 to 800 attenders every week, and we are currently renting a High School auditorium for our Sunday gatherings. You can imagine the weekly set-up and take down for that this necessitates. Another reason I am proud to support this campaign: 5 cents of every dollar given to building campaign is given to the cause of the global poor (nearly 1 million dollars), and another 5 cents is given to fund church plants (nearly 1 million dollars).

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